Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-12-01

on the 21st the propeller Waverly, of the
Ogdensburg line ran on the rocks at North
Point five miles above Milwaukee, Wis.
FRANK T. NORTHEY, who was recently
convicted at San Francisco on q charge OF
attempting to bride jury, has been SEN
fenced to nine years. imprisonment North.
ey was indicted on the same charge as Rob
ert F. Morrow, prominent capitalist, and
James McCord and d. ]. Creighton, local
politicians, the latter of whom fed to Mex
leo after his conviction.
| JAMES JESKs & Co., dealers In machin-
cry, Detroit, Mich, have made an assign
ment with SIC, 900 liabilities.
| ATLAS powder exploded at Scranton, Pa,
| on the ed, demolishing many window
panes. Two men were seriously hurt.
The Canadian schooner Norwood went
| ashore near Marquette, Mich, in q blind
ing snow storm on the ed. An unknown
| schooner was also seen to go down near
kenosha.
A CLOTHING firm in the Bowery, New
York, advertised tho other day that z, 600
overcoats would be given away to the poor
| and needy boys. Forty policemen were
sent to the spot to keep order. The store
was fairly mobbed. After the 1900 over
coats had been distributed there was still
thousands Of children in the crowd who had
to 60 away disappointed.
TWELVE cars and 525 bales Of cotton were
burned near Bryan, Tex, the other night
on the Texas Central railway. The loss
was $4,000. Insured.
AREAR end collision between two freight
| trains on the Chicago & Alton, near Sher-
man, eight miles north Of Springfield, ILL.,,
occurred on the 22d. Two locomotives and
seventeen freight cars with their contents
were destroyed. The loss was from $50, 600
to $5O,OO0 No person was seriously in
jured.
AS the direct outgrowth of the Washing
ton police scandal of last year, ex-Lieuten-
ant Arnold has sued ex-Chief Walker for
$50, 600 for libel
The coal miners at Stoneboro and Grove
City, Pa, have struck for an advance Of
nine cents per ton in wages.
TEN thousand more dollars have been
sent by Treasurer O'Reilly, Of the Irish
National League Of America. to Ireland.
JUDGE WALLACE, Of the United States Cir
cult Court at New York, has decided on
appeal that L. II. Rogers, who was bonds
man for Signal Service Officer Henry w.
Howgate, who abSconded from Washing
ton with S133.000 must make good the
amount of the bond, $4,000.
THE public school election at st. Louis On
the 22d ended in a sweeping victory for the
citizens ticket, defeating the element III
ssting on the teaching of German in the
schools
THE great st. Louis cotton steamer
Charles 2. Chouteau was burned with her
cargo of 1850 bales of cotton at Sunhow err
Landing $50 miles below Memphis, Tenn,
on the night Of the 22d. The Chouteau was
formerly the Federal gun boat Chckasaw.
Two of the crew were reported lost.
AT Thibodaux, La, on the ODD six negro
strikers were killed by the citizens
pickets, who alleged that they had been
fired upon by guns loaded with slugs Five
other negroes were wounded.
HEAVY rains in Arkansas and Southern
Illinois on the 23d did much to eXtinguish
the devastating forest fires.
Two Russian steamers were in collision
recently in the Black Sea. One of the YES
sells sunk, drowning thirty five persons.
The American ship E. f. Sawyer, Captain
Dinsmore from San Francisco, June II,
for Queenstown, was sunk by collision
with the British steamer PalinuruS at
Folkestone, Eng, the other morning. The
crew were saved.
THE Athen9um building in Englcwood,
N. j., was destroyed by fire the other morn
ing. Loss, 100000.
'.BLINKEY'' MORGAN, convicted of the
murder of Detective Hulligan, of Cleveland,
O., has been sentenced to be hanged on
March 16, 1885, A motion for new trial
was overruled.
JOHN SPELLMAN, the jockey, died at st.
Vincent's Hospital, New York, recently,
from injuries said to have been received in
house of ill-fame. The coroner intended
to make an investigation.
PROF. SEGUIN and Dr. Godfrey dissected
the carcass of the elephant Alice, burned
in the recent fire at Barnum's menagerie,
Bridgeport, Conn.,. and found in the stomach
over 800 pennies, part Of a pocket knife,
four cane ferules, a piece of lead pipe and
some pebbles.
The application for the removal of the
Reading railroad from the hands of the re-
ceiver was made in the United States Court
at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 23rd, and was
granted, and the property will be turned
over to the company January2. The order
also includes the Jersey Central and Buff
falo, New York & Philadelphia Companies.
The Pension Office is informed that Nc
Giney, the notorious pension forger and
swindler, pleaded guilty at Cleveland, O.,
of forgery. His career Of crime covers
score of years, and he has drawn thousands
of dollars of pension money on fictitious
pensions.